Friday, August 10, 2012

It Is Possible For Obama To Tell The Truth

The admission is damaging, partly because it might constrict
fund-raising by Burton’ super PAC, and partly because it promotes
skepticism by the public — and even the establishment media — about the
president’s campaign-trail claims.

The Romney campaign and the Republican National Committee gleefully touted the turnabout.

“The Obama campaign has now admitted that it lied to the media and
the American people in a disgraceful attempt to conceal their connection
to this shameful [cancer-death] smear,” said a statement from Ryan
Williams, a Romney spokesman.

“Americans deserve better — they deserve a president who’s willing to
run an honest campaign and be honest about his own record,” he said.

The RNC also put the boot in.

“Jen Psaki is now admitting the campaign DID have knowledge of the
Soptic family’s cancer story despite telling reporters yesterday the
campaign didn’t,” said a Aug. 9 statement from RNC spokeswoman Kirsten
Kukowski.

“Yet Team Obama still won’t condemn Priorities USA for trying to smear Romney by tying him to a woman’s death,” she said.

Joe Pounder, the RNCs research chief, also used the backtrack to portray Obama as deceptive.In an Aug. 9 stump speech, “Barack Obama decried Republican Super
PACs but again refused to speak out against the widely condemned ad from
his own Super PAC,” Pounder said in a statement.

“We guess Barack Obama is only offended by outside ads if they are
from Republican groups and isn’t willing to stand up to Bill Burton and
his liberal friends,” Pounder said.

About Me

I was born in Tombstone, Arizona, but moved to California in 1959 when labor strikes at the copper mines devastated the Arizona economy. I've been moving north ever since. Pullman is as far north as I care to live and I'm looking toward reversing the drift.